Article: "Statistics vs. Data Science vs. BI"

Link: http://smartdatacollective.com/davidmsmith/124376/statistics-vs-data-science-vs-bi

Big Data is About Speed Instead of Just Size

Article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2013/may/20/big-data-critics-overlooked-speed-not-size

The main point of the article provides an insightful reminder for us not to be fixation with just the volume aspect of big data. There are many cases characterized by a high-velocity stream of data that needs to be processed and acted on immediately.

Google Launches "Mobile Backend as a Service"

Google launches "Mobile Backend as a Service" starter kit. It's called "Mobile Backend Starter" and runs on top of Google App Engine.

It's mainly a client-to-client networking and communications stack. It supports storage of state data on the server side and also Google Authentication. However, no customized server logic or extensions are supported.

References:

• http://gigaom.com/2013/06/03/google-takes-on-parse-with-new-service-for-mobile-app-backends/
• http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.sg/2013/06/get-your-mobile-application-in-the-cloud-with-mobile-backend-starter.html